[Moreover, IL-6 is a pathophysiological factor in several hyperproliferative diseases and the paraneoplastic syndromes that often accompany cancer, such as cachexia and osteoporosis; thus, anti-IL-6 therapy would be useful in treating these entities as well.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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